Changes in Determining Gifted Eligibility for Underrepresented Students. Research Note. Volume 0802

Autor/in	Froman, Terry
Institution	Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Research Services
Titel	Changes in Determining Gifted Eligibility for Underrepresented Students. Research Note. Volume 0802
Quelle	(2008), (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Referral; Academically Gifted; State Standards; Eligibility; Recognition (Achievement); Scoring; Boards of Education; Data Analysis; Community Colleges; Disproportionate Representation; Screening Tests; Norms; Academic Achievement; Florida; Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Eignung; Soziale Anerkennung; Bewertung; Ausschuss; Auswertung; Community college; Community College; Screening-Verfahren; Normwert; Schulleistung
Abstract	There are a number of detailed requirements for gifted screening, referral and eligibility specified under State Board Rules and School Board Rules. In all of these areas, explicit mention is made of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) Norm Referenced Test (NRT) scores as being integral components. Due to budget considerations, the Florida DOE is discontinuing administration of the NRT starting in 2008. With NRT scores no longer available, screening, referral, and eligibility specifications will have to be modified and provisions will need to be made for some kind of substitute measurement of academic achievement. In anticipation of these needs, members of the Division of Advanced Academic Programs and Assessment, Research and Data Analysis collaborated on the suggestion proposed in this Research Note. With the discontinuation of the NRT, a substitute for judging the student's academic achievement is needed. The natural choice and the focus of this investigation is the use of the FCAT Sunshine State Standards (SSS) Test scores. Although it was not possible using the SSS to construct categories of the same sets of students that would have resulted from using the NRT, it was possible to match the percent of students in each of the point-award groupings. The percent of students receiving each point-level award under NRT results and under SSS results using the newly proposed score ranges are compared. It can be seen that the percentages across all grade levels match very closely using the SSS test as a substitute for the NRT. To make application easier, the same ranges in SSS scores were used across all grade levels. Using the SSS in the Matrix Scoring System in this manner should ultimately result in the same percentage of students being deemed Gifted Eligible through the M-DCPS Plan B Matrix. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools. 1450 NE Second Avenue, Miami, FL 33132. Tel: 305-995-1000; Fax: 305-995-7521; Web site: http://www.dadeschools.net
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10